To Spring
To Spring - context Summary
1789: in Poetical Sketches
William Blake’s "To Spring" is an ode that personifies Spring as an angelic visitor whose arrival will renew a longing, love-sick land. Addressed to the season, the poem asks Spring to move over hills, breathe fragranced mornings and evenings, scatter pearls, and crown the land with beauty. Its tone is celebratory and supplicatory, emphasizing rebirth, pastoral renewal, and communal anticipation of seasonal change.
Read Complete AnalysesO thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee. O deck her forth with thy fair fingers; pour Thy soft kisses on her bosom; and put Thy golden crown upon her languished head, Whose modest tresses were bound up for thee.
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